You would be correct if the only thing those places did was payday cash advance loans. However, most of those places also provide other services which can be vitally essential, such as paycheck cashing and wiring money. If you are really that upset about usery, you should be screaming at the banks as well.
The "Woz" invented the Apple. All hail the "Woz"!
Steve Jobs was just an opportunistic penis_with_ears that slapped a logo on it and made a fortune.
The fact that Jobs' name is being used by other johnsoncraniums to make money is nothing more than poetic justice.
After playing quite a few F2P games, I have had a nagging suspicion that the RNGs are not necessarily playing fair. It would be a simple bit of code to weight an RNG based on the player's spending habits. Pay more? Better drop chances for that gold plated left handed swab handle instead if the usual rubber one.
I freely admit that I have not taken the time needed to actually test that idea, but numerous impromptu player surveys I've conducted certainly hint in that direction.
"Manufacturer claims based on number of participants, individual experiences may vary, member FDIC. "
OK. It's there and it's not going to just disappear, sooooo, is there any way to root it and use it ourselves? Who wouldn't want to turn a dual-core into a tri-core (or even just a dual and 1/2 core)?
53 years old..
8080, 8085, Z80, 6502, 6809,..
.
And my memory if the grand ol days of cassette was "Always save 3 times.. on at LEAST 2 different tapes stored in 3 seperate locations. " Typing old stuff in over and over again sucks, and so did tape in those days.
Oddly the best tapes were usually the cheapest. K-Mart blue light special tapes won hands down.
Damn C coders an' ther high level nonsense! {shakyley raises grounded binary entry tapping wand} When we was growin' up, we didna ha' non o that nonsense. All we had was binara codin from hand assembled inaga... inagiber... ideeers. Yer fancy codin couldna brung bout no operatin systems if it wern't fer us ol' hakaday types that did what we did because we loved it Hmmpphh. Ok.. C is.. well.. talk to me when yall can code it by hand. P.S. did I mention.. hmmph.
The internet is a place of groupthink, or more to point given the anonymous nature of it, a place of groupunconcious.
Forums offer a place to speak our minds.
Not the normal "me speaking to you" variety, but the unfiltered "I wouldn't say this if you held a gun to head" variety.
It's easy to say the nasty things in the backs of our minds if there's no one else around..... Or if everyone else is around. (The anonimity (sp.) of the crowd)
In an environment where this is the norm, there will inevetibly be a portion that cannot distinguish between the two.
They will spew out the most vile and evil trash they can conceive because the reponse they receive beats no response at all. And so all of their positive reenforcement results from that which comes froms the worst parts of their psyche.
And so the trashers trash, the spewers spew, and those of us trying to get real answers are overwhelmed in a giant compost heap of hate.
"Nobody is buying my oompa band records because discos don't play enough tuba music!"
I know it's unthinkable to MS, but maybe the reason win 8 isn't selling is because it just plain sux!
It's kind of too broad a question to begin with, and will largely depend on when you 1st "discovered" computers. I'm kinda old school.. so I might say Livermoore Basic, Tiny basic, or as a fun one. "Zork" (which actually came along years after I had already discovered the joys of computer geekdom)! If you re really into doing a complete history.you'd have to go back all the way to the Babbage computing engines.. or even before that. . While one certainly reminisces about "the grand old days" of this particular program or that, ultimately it boils down to just that: YOUR experiences with with those great old programs. And what might have been influential to me is now just so much saw dust under the feet of those moving on to the next "killer app". Not trying to say there weren't some very influential programs, the exact opposite in fact. There were a LOT of influential programs. Too many for a truly objective one size fits all list.
God has rebooted the world a total of 17 times. There have been 4 BSODs (Blue Skies of Death). Only 3 species were accidently deleted, though there are several billion empty folders where some species used to reside. There are currently only 3 life forms on planet earth: MS engineers, U.N. workers, and viruses. (there are no bugs.. never have been , never will be.)
The world is slowing down as more data accumulates. Currently it takes about 10 minutes of processing per 1 sec of real-time, but once the algorithms are fully engaged we expect this figure to rise exponentially. Since it is impossible to achieve real-time performance, our engineers are guaranteed lifetime salaries.
On a side note: As a result of these studies, MS now holds the patent on breathing. Pay up MFs!
Haven't the telcos ever heard of "Lowest Cost Spanning Trees?". This is what's done in internet routers to prevent exactly the kinds of infinite loops causing the problems there.
Spanning trees still provide the carriers with the best available pricing for a given set of call end points over the available routers, but also ensure that infinite loops don't occur within the network, thus providing proper connectivity to the end user.
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Oh George Orwell, where are you when we need you?
Who knew the aborigines were canucks?
You would be correct if the only thing those places did was payday cash advance loans. However, most of those places also provide other services which can be vitally essential, such as paycheck cashing and wiring money. If you are really that upset about usery, you should be screaming at the banks as well.
The "Woz" invented the Apple. All hail the "Woz"! Steve Jobs was just an opportunistic penis_with_ears that slapped a logo on it and made a fortune. The fact that Jobs' name is being used by other johnsoncraniums to make money is nothing more than poetic justice.
The diff is that a camera needs someone to watch it, a robot is autonamous, no supervision required.
As long as one of them wasn't Bruce Dern, I'm not worried.
If I was to try that it would come out looking more like Mr. Potatoehead.
Attack of the the Eye Creatures... Before someone asks for a citation.
EARL HOLLIMAN. Walter Pidgeon may have gotten a mention on MST3K, but only the Hollimeister got a tribute.
After playing quite a few F2P games, I have had a nagging suspicion that the RNGs are not necessarily playing fair. It would be a simple bit of code to weight an RNG based on the player's spending habits. Pay more? Better drop chances for that gold plated left handed swab handle instead if the usual rubber one. I freely admit that I have not taken the time needed to actually test that idea, but numerous impromptu player surveys I've conducted certainly hint in that direction. "Manufacturer claims based on number of participants, individual experiences may vary, member FDIC. "
Nuff said.
OK. It's there and it's not going to just disappear, sooooo, is there any way to root it and use it ourselves? Who wouldn't want to turn a dual-core into a tri-core (or even just a dual and 1/2 core)?
53 years old.. 8080, 8085, Z80, 6502, 6809, ..
.
And my memory if the grand ol days of cassette was "Always save 3 times.. on at LEAST 2 different tapes stored in 3 seperate locations. " Typing old stuff in over and over again sucks, and so did tape in those days.
Oddly the best tapes were usually the cheapest. K-Mart blue light special tapes won hands down.
Damn C coders an' ther high level nonsense! {shakyley raises grounded binary entry tapping wand} When we was growin' up, we didna ha' non o that nonsense. All we had was binara codin from hand assembled inaga... inagiber... ideeers. Yer fancy codin couldna brung bout no operatin systems if it wern't fer us ol' hakaday types that did what we did because we loved it Hmmpphh. Ok.. C is .. well .. talk to me when yall can code it by hand. P.S. did I mention .. hmmph.
Every time I google "google" all I get is this stupid picture of God.
Correction: Most men are dicks, most women are pussies, the rest are subject to change without notice.
The internet is a place of groupthink, or more to point given the anonymous nature of it, a place of groupunconcious. Forums offer a place to speak our minds. Not the normal "me speaking to you" variety, but the unfiltered "I wouldn't say this if you held a gun to head" variety. It's easy to say the nasty things in the backs of our minds if there's no one else around..... Or if everyone else is around. (The anonimity (sp.) of the crowd) In an environment where this is the norm, there will inevetibly be a portion that cannot distinguish between the two. They will spew out the most vile and evil trash they can conceive because the reponse they receive beats no response at all. And so all of their positive reenforcement results from that which comes froms the worst parts of their psyche. And so the trashers trash, the spewers spew, and those of us trying to get real answers are overwhelmed in a giant compost heap of hate.
"Nobody is buying my oompa band records because discos don't play enough tuba music!" I know it's unthinkable to MS, but maybe the reason win 8 isn't selling is because it just plain sux!
It's kind of too broad a question to begin with, and will largely depend on when you 1st "discovered" computers. I'm kinda old school.. so I might say Livermoore Basic, Tiny basic, or as a fun one. "Zork" (which actually came along years after I had already discovered the joys of computer geekdom)! If you re really into doing a complete history.you'd have to go back all the way to the Babbage computing engines.. or even before that. . While one certainly reminisces about "the grand old days" of this particular program or that, ultimately it boils down to just that: YOUR experiences with with those great old programs. And what might have been influential to me is now just so much saw dust under the feet of those moving on to the next "killer app". Not trying to say there weren't some very influential programs, the exact opposite in fact. There were a LOT of influential programs. Too many for a truly objective one size fits all list.
God has rebooted the world a total of 17 times. There have been 4 BSODs (Blue Skies of Death). Only 3 species were accidently deleted, though there are several billion empty folders where some species used to reside. There are currently only 3 life forms on planet earth: MS engineers, U.N. workers, and viruses. (there are no bugs.. never have been , never will be.) The world is slowing down as more data accumulates. Currently it takes about 10 minutes of processing per 1 sec of real-time, but once the algorithms are fully engaged we expect this figure to rise exponentially. Since it is impossible to achieve real-time performance, our engineers are guaranteed lifetime salaries. On a side note: As a result of these studies, MS now holds the patent on breathing. Pay up MFs!
Haven't the telcos ever heard of "Lowest Cost Spanning Trees?". This is what's done in internet routers to prevent exactly the kinds of infinite loops causing the problems there. Spanning trees still provide the carriers with the best available pricing for a given set of call end points over the available routers, but also ensure that infinite loops don't occur within the network, thus providing proper connectivity to the end user.